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 Design Council Searches for Exceptional Design Talent in New Chief Design Officer The Design Council has launched the search for a new Chief Design Officer to head up its design strategy... more  Beyond Design Thinking: Smart Design Offers Fresh Ideas at Barcelona Design Week Matt Barthelemy, Vice President at Smart Design, will join others from IDEO, Philips Design, and Design Connect in a spi... more  Design for Patient Dignity The Design Council has launched a national design challenge called "Design for Patient Dignity," inviting designers to join forces with manufacturers, service providers... more  Nissan EPORO Robot Car: Collision-free Driving by Mimicking Fish Behavior In 2008, it was the flight of the bumblebee that inspired Nissan's Biomimetic Car Robot Drive "BR23C" concept. In 2009, fish... more  Multipleways09: Swiss Design Network Symposium The Fifth Symposium of the Swiss Design Network wants to highlight research cases informed by knowledge of other disciplines to understand their relevance... more  Coroflot Creative Confab Every creative person is looking for great work. Every creative organization is looking for great people. This event matches these two groups for an intense 3 hour... more  Simple and Clever Head for the BMW Museum In the course of its history, BMW has repeatedly provided impulses for the further development of personal mobility through innovative vehicle and drive concep... more  Laurenz Schaffer: New President of the BMW Group's Subsidiary DesignworksUSA Laurenz Schaffer, since the year 2000 director of the Munich studio of the BMW Group subsidiary DesignworksUSA, will be taki... more  The First Issue of the SEE Bulletin Design Wales announced the official launch of the SEE bulletin - the only publication fully dedicated to discussing promotion, support and government policies for de... more  The Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents Works by Designer Marcel Wanders The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a multimedia exhibition of works by Marcel Wanders, whose unique fusion of... more  Call for Papers: 7th International Design & Emotions Conference The International Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders m... more  Buckminster Fuller Challenge Only 30 days left to prepare and submit applications for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. This distinguished international prize program awards... more  Stefano Marzano Tackles Future Healthcare Challenges at Icsid World Design Congress Wouldn't our health be dramatically improved if our healthcare system were built on maintaining a balanced lifestyle ... more  Re:Vision Design Awards 2010 Modern Painters magazine and Louise Blouin Media are proud to announce the inaugural Re:Vision Design Awards. The Re:Vision Design Awards challenges emerging designers o... more  Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. In reality, most i... more  M&H Awarded 2009 Pentaward for Living Proof No Frizz M&H Plastics USA has been awarded the 2009 Pentaward in the Body Category for Living Proof "No Frizz" - a range of silicone-free hair straightening ... more  Design The 4th Bin Winners Valiant Technology announced the winners of the "Design The 4th Bin" competition. The competition sought ideas and concepts from around the globe for a public domain e-was... more  The Kevi Chair in New Colours The classic Kevi chair is now being introduced in seven new varnish-painted colours to liven up your office or home. The new colours are: blue, green, red, yellow, oran... more  Transform Your Design Business: Design Victoria Launches Grants and Assistance Resource Transform Your Design Business is an online guide that equips Victorian designers with the know-how to successful... more  TEDxColumbus TEDxColumbus: Global is a program that seeks to highlight the talents, inspirations, and innovations of those in Columbus that have touched the globe. Through a series of talks the even... more  CCA Leading by Design Fellows Program California College of the Arts announced the May 2010 launch of the Leading by Design Fellows Program, the first executive program of its kind in the United States... more  Design Council and British Chambers of Commerce launch Business Growth Clubs In the first phase of the programme, 12 Design Council workshops will offer help to up to 300 small and medium sized enterpr... more |  Phoenix Design Week 2009 Phoenix Design Week is a celebration of the local design community. It will include a variety of exhibitions, open houses, workshops, presentations, activities, films and ot... more  Winners of the Pentawards 2009 The international jury of Pentawards, the first world competition devoted exclusively to Packaging Design, chaired by Gerard Caron, announced its winners for 2009. The... more  Project Never 2010 Design Competition Project Never is a free awards competition created by graphic designers for graphic designers. Thousands of effective designs die each day - often for good reas... more  The Transform 2010 Awards Transform 2010 will celebrate the best in brand rebuilding and is open to all companies or agencies that have launched a rebrand between January 2008 and September 2009. Ju... more  HUGO Create Manhattan Gallery This fall, HUGO Fragrances turns downtown Manhattan into a spectacular outdoor gallery. Celebrating the richness and diversity of today's creative scene, the hand paint... more  UCDA Insight Workshop 2009 Insight is a creativity workshop that removes the rigid structure of traditional program delivery, allowing you to interact with the environment you find yourself in. Mult... more  myPANTONE: Pantone Turns iPhone into Color Studio on the Go There has been a fundamental shift in the way designers work over the years - projects have become digitally driven and inspiration more spon... more  Selected: Graphic Design From Europe Selected is not an award, but rather, as its name suggests, it is a selection of interesting projects completed during the past year - chosen by a selection team wh... more  Rejection: Poster Contest Design a poster on the theme of "Rejection." All submitted posters will be exhibited at the Salon Awards Show on October 24, 2009. Winner announced on the night of the s... more  Wallpaper* Produces 11 Separate Covers for November Special Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine, is celebrating the very best and brightest from 10 global superpowers o... more  Modern Typography in Britain: Graphic Design, Politics, and Society The University of Reading announced the fascinating book "Modern typography in Britain: graphic design politics and society," is now ... more  Utopia Green Zone: Appleton Coated Helps Designers Evaluate Their Green Printing Options Creative professionals seeking resources to help them design more environmentally friendly printed materials hav... more  4th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication On 17, 18 & 19 June 2010 the Department of Design & Multimedia of the University of Nicosia will be hosting the 4th International Con... more  Typographic Exploration in Hangul: Work by Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo This exhibition presents typographic explorations in Hungul by two Korean Designers, Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo, and is curated by UC D... more  Qompendium Print Publication Volume 1 Qompendium Print Publication is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictori... more  RVF Art Museum to Display First-ever Exhibit of Graphic Design For the first-time, the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum will host a history of graphic design exhibition that will include 75 works from Pa... more  Gert Dumbar Wins BNO Piet Zwart Award This year, the BNO - Piet Zwart Life Time Achievement Award of the Dutch Design Awards 2009 is awarded to graphic designer Gert Dumbar. The Award, which compris... more  Graphic Design: The New Basics This guide for students and professionals refocuses design instruction on the study of the fundamentals of form, informed by contemporary media, theory, and software syst... more  Design Museum Talks: Javier Mariscal Javier Mariscal, the Barcelona based Spanish designer, will be in conversation with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic to discus his motivations and achievements a... more  Creativity + Commerce 2010 Creativity + Commerce showcases outstanding print and interactive design from around the world. This highly selective competition features the best branding campaigns, web... more  Siegel+Gale Helps Care Support of America Connect Siegel+Gale, one of the world's premier strategic branding companies, has completed a major rebranding project for Care Support of America, a national ... more  The Hawn Foundation's MindUP Program Gets a Rebrand by CoreBrand The mission of The Hawn Foundation, founded by award-winning actress and children's advocate Goldie Hawn, is to equip children with the ... more |  The New In Between: Andrew Aloisio Reinterprets KARTELL "The New In Between" is the final chapter of the "somewhere in between" installation of limited edition objects, previously created by artist & d... more  The Lacoste Pink Croc Collection Lacoste has partnered with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation to find the cure for breast cancer. Lacoste will donate 10% of proceeds from this beach themed pink ... more  Mudpie Form Strategic Alliance with U.S. Trend Specialist Denimhead Mudpie announced a new strategic alliance between two of the world's leading trend forecasting companies - Mudpie and Denimhead. T... more  When Clothes Become Fashion When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It... more  Sonia Rykiel Heats Up the 2009 Holiday Season for H&M H&M and Sonia Rykiel president and artistic director Nathalie Rykiel announced that Sonia Rykiel will be the next guest designer for winter 2009 an... more  Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textiles at Japan Society To be living in Japan in the middle decades of the last century was to be surrounded by the designs of Serizawa Keisuke, a brilliant designer who ... more  Otto Neurath: Gypsy Urbanism At a time when contemporary culture is dominated by the mass media and we are all glued to many screens, it is fascinating to contemplate the career of little-known Austria... more  The IAHH International Student Design Competition IAHH announced its Eighth International Student Design Competition on the theme of "Affordable Housing in Sustainable Humane Habitats." The competit... more  Chelmsford Salvation Army Citadel Corps Wins Two RIBA East Awards Hudson Architects' Salvation Army Citadel Corps Chelmsford, Essex has won two awards in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA... more  ASID Announces 2010 Board of Directors The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) 2010 Board of Directors took office Oct. 1, 2009. The 11-member board, made up of three officers (past presid... more  GE Energy Financial Services Building Designed by Perkins Eastman International design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman announced that the 280,000 sf new headquarters of GE Energy Financial Servic... more  New Design Review Network Launched CABE and eight regional design review panels have joined together to create a national network of design review panels. This will provide all local planning author... more  Context Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts New York is often imagined as a perennially new city, yet in the four decades since the 1965 passage of the New York Landmarks Law, it has becom... more  2010 CABE Space Design Skills Scholarships CABE Space is offering up to eight people the opportunity to learn how well-designed spaces can benefit communities through the 2010 CABE Space design skills ... more  APLD 2010 International Landscape Design Awards: Call for Entries The APLD International Landscape Design Awards recognizes excellence in the field of landscape design. For 2010, the entry process w... more  Bloomframe: Balcony-on-demand Hits the Streets Bloomframe, the innovative window that morphs magically into a balcony at the touch of a button, is no longer a prototype. This revolutionary and multi... more  Designing Sustainable Cities This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, develop... more  Badmagazin: New Bathroom Magazine From Duravit There are plenty of reasons for redesigning a bathroom, not all of them of a technical or hygienic nature. The new bathroom magazine from Duravit offer... more  Architecture in Times of Need: Make It Right Architecture in Times of Need is the first book to document the projects and progress made by the Make It Right Foundation, established by actor Brad Pitt d... more  The Architecture of Natural Light Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and s... more  Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer satisfies the need in the interior design field for a source that teaches the aes... more  Design for Environment: Eco-Efficient Product Development Drawing on the experiences of dozens of major corporations, Design for Environment, Second Edition, offers a business rationale for developing ... more |  Ieoh Ming Pei to Receive the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture The Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei, who is best known in Europe for his transformation of the Louvre in Paris... more  Green Good Design Awards 2010 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies issued a Call of Entries for the... more  Foster + Partners' Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House Opens in Dallas Today The new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the opera house for the 21st century, breaking down barrie... more  Europe 40 Under 40 Awards 2010 In a bold attempt to identify the next, upcoming generation of European design practitioners, The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies announce... more  CalArts Completes Construction of Innovative New Music Pavilion California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) President Steven D. Lavine announced the completion of The Wild Beast... more  Auckland Architecture Week 2009 Auckland Architecture Week is an annual celebration that includes exhibitions, movies and discussions covering a range of topics that fit broadly within the field of arc... more  Project 2009: Lakefront Station Cleveland Design Competition announced the launch of the third annual Cleveland Design Competition - Project 2009: Lakefront Station. Project 2009: Lakefront Station ... more  RIBA Trust Talks & Events: Autumn 2009 This autumn's Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Trust programme includes talks by Daniel Libeskind, among others, on Polish architecture and... more  Design Green Roadshow Sustainability is more than just the latest buzzword. Embracing sustainable design practices helps play a part in our planet's future. Join IMAGINiT and special guest speake... more  2010 Dulux Colour Awards The Dulux Colour Awards have long been a bastion for acknowledging and applauding exceptional colour application and use amongst Australian architects and interior designers. ... more  Symposium on Social Housing Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA) will hold a symposium on Social Housing in Brazil and the Netherlands. The aim of the symposium is to excha... more  Birmingham College Wins Best Public Building Award Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Birmingham has won this year's Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award. The college's principal, Ell... more  New York Now: AIANY 2009 New York Now will include works of all scales and types - small, large, commercial, residential, public, private, interiors, historic preservation, engineering... more  September Results of the RIBA Future Trends Survey The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced the September results of its monthly Future Trends Survey, which was established in January... more  SCI-Arc Distinguished Alumni Awards to Honor Barbara Bestor, Jennifer Siegal Architects Barbara Bestor and Jennifer Siegal are being honored for their significant contributions to the design and archit... more  Architecture & Design as a Catalyst for Change Carol Coletta, of CEOs for Cities, and Damon Rich, Center for Urban Pedagogy, will keynote the first-ever conference of the Association of Architecture Or... more  The Second Edition of Sofia Architecture Week Sofia Architecture Week 2009 has attracted famous architects from all over the world to an event that will teach Bulgaria's capital how to become a clean a... more  Actions: What You Can Do With the City On view October 16, 2009 through March 13, 2010, the next exhibition at the Graham Foundation challenges visitors to think differently about how to walk, play, re... more  SEGD Dynamic Environments 3: The Intersection of Information, Experience, and Architecture Producing memorable and appropriate dynamic environments requires a high degree of collaboration among owners,... more  Infinite Radius: Founding Rhode Island School of Design RISD announced the publication of Infinite Radius: Founding Rhode Island School of Design, the first anthology about the establishment of America... more  Norman R. Foster Visiting Professorship Established at Yale University Pritzker-Prize laureate and Yale School of Architecture alumnus Norman Foster and his family have donated $3 million to Yale Schoo... more  Portland Art Museum Opens China Design Now: A Multi-Sensory Experience This October, the Portland Art Museum opens China Design Now, a multi-sensory experience reflecting the new Chinese urban environm... more |  Cut&Paste 2009 Global Championship This year's Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament has made its way through 16 cities and 256 competitors from February - June 2009. It now culminates in a battle of ... more  Photoshop Mobile App for iPhone Adobe introduced Photoshop Mobile for iPhone application, delivering Adobe industry-leading digital-imaging technology to users on the go. Photoshop Mobile... more  Thoughts on Interaction Design: Renowned Book is Available Once Again Interaction Designers-whether practicing as Usability Engineers, Visual Interface Designers, or Information Architects-attempt to u... more  Sumo Paint Has Reached Over 5 Million Users and Launches Sumo Paint 2.0 Sumo Ltd today released Sumo Paint 2.0 and announced that Sumo community has reached over 5 million people since launching the se... more  Flickerlab Heads to MIPCOM to Introduce the Wild Life FlickerLab, LLC, the international content and technology company, will introduce the entertainment content market at MIPCOM to their newest animat... more  Motion504 Invents Kinectic Type for Aicp Minnesota Show Reception Sponsor Reel Minneapolis broadcast design & animation studio motion504 recently completed the reception sponsor reel for the Minneapoli... more  MEX: Enhancing User Experience in a Multi-platform Digital World MEX is a two day forum exploring the techniques and strategies for creating great user experience in a multi-platform digital environmen... more  Bunkspeed HyperShot '10 for Rendering Bunkspeed today introduced HyperShot '10, the long and eagerly awaited new release of the patent pending real-time rendering application that was introduced 2 year... more  Call for Papers: 5th International Artech Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and International contrib... more  Bent Proclaims I Exist For Diet Dr Pepper Bent Image Labs' Ken Lidster recently directed another brilliantly hilarious stop-motion spot, this time in conjunction with Deutsch/LA to promote the Diet Dr ... more  Social Control: New Agency Redefines Digital Through Social Behavior Digital creative agency Social Control officially opens its Hollywood studio today, following three months of development with priva... more  When Eyeball and Momix Combine, Art Expands for Target's Art for All Project Dressed in brilliant red and vibrant white body suits, five Momix dancers fold, unfold and refold themselves into a swirl of... more  Design Group Piranha Joins Fluid Marc Schwartz, Managing Partner at Fluid NYC, the New York-based editorial, original music and visual effects studio, announced today that Piranha Design is partnering ... more  Design Shop Eyeball Creates PBS On-Air Look for 21st Century PBS, one of the most highly respected brands in media, is unveiling a new multiplatform brand package this fall. In more than 600 element... more  solidThinking Introduces morphogenesis Form Generation Technology solidThinking announced a breakthrough in digital product development with the release of morphogenesis, a new technology dedicated to ... more  The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design Artists and creators in interactive art and interaction design have long been conducting research on human-machine interaction. Through artist... more  72andSunny Helps Launch BUGABOO (PRODUCT)RED Campaign 72andSunny announced today its support of the October 1 launch of (BUGABOO)RED - the newest (RED) partnership with Bugaboo International, the innov... more  The High Bridge International Ideas Competition The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter, announced its fourth biennial international ideas competition. This competition is ... more  Digital Primitive #2: Porcupine Designed by the New York based architects and designers Caterina Tiazzoldi and Eduardo Benamor Duarte (team Tania Branquinho and Mauro Fassino) in collaboration with PAS... more  Recycling Kitty Litter on the Go A cardboard kitty litter package to end cat owners' nightmares has won a Swinburne University student a gold medal in the Southern Cross Package Design Awards. The $... more  Paul Smith Designs Evian Bottle The style of a design icon and the youthful spirit of evian have merged this season to create a vivacious bottle for the festive holidays. Known for his sense of fun ... more  Ghost Stories: New Design from Nendo Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo transforms the MADProjects Gallery on the Museum's second floor into a magical landscape of new designs that imbue chairs, vas... more |  The Fall Solo Show: An Open Call for the Best New Art The Fall Solo Show is an international open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, pri... more  A Warhol Trio: Photos, Prints and Silver Clouds The SCAD Museum of Art presents the exhibition: "A Warhol Trio: Photos, Prints and Silver Clouds," October 14 - December 11 at the SCAD Museum of Art. ... more  Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present features more than 175 works by 105 photographers, including many rare and never-before ex... more  East of Borneo: CalArts to Launch Online Art Journal and Archive Set to launch in spring 2010, East of Borneo is a dynamic and extensive website: part art journal, part multi-media archive edited by Th... more  SFMOMA Rose to International Prominence Under Leadership of Henry T. Hopkins Former San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) director Henry T. Hopkins passed away on September 27, 2009. During hi... more  Digital'09: Mysteries in Science This exhibition's purpose is to demonstrate how digital technology is enabling new aesthetic imaging possibilities and conceptual statements. In the competition pros... more  Younity Arts Presents: Fresher! The Fresher! exhibit, hosted by the Younity Arts Collective, will boast works of eco-friendly street art. The Younity collective houses renowed artists such as Lady P... more  Before and After: Hijacking Everyday Stuff to Craft Incredible Creatures Ossu! Shugeibu, translated into English as Yo! Crafting Club, is fueled by a mix of testosterone and pure creativity uninhibited... more  Tom Blackett: Siegel+Gale Appoints High Profile Chairman for Expanding UK Office Global brand consultancy Siegel+Gale announced today that it has appointed Tom Blackett as Chairman of its UK office. ... more  BMW C1-E: Concept for a Higher Level of Safety in the City This is what a safe, environment-friendly and highly practical single track vehicle for city traffic could look like in the future. BMW Mot... more  Design Chicago 2010: Exhibit Featuring Chicago Artists Design Chicago 2010 will feature new work by Chicago-based or originated, graphic, industrial, and interior designers. An exhibition of all thi... more  Red Dot Award Design Concept 2009 Sees New Record Number of Entries It came as a surprise in the face of the global crisis: the jury of the red dot award: design concept was enthusiastic about the numb... more  Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010 Brit Insurance Designs of the Year has established itself as a leading showcase of the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world, suppor... more  The Helmet Project In a unique partnership with Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), the Harley-Davidson Museum presents a feature exhibit of helmet art and design. An interdisciplinary team ... more  The Sami Knife II at Design Forum Finland Global design and local Finnish design and production meet at The Sami Knife II exhibition at Design Forum Finland. 22 designers have searched for a new for... more  Be(e) Diverse: Irish Bee House Awarded with 1st Prize of EESC Design ZeroNine Competition The "Bee house" project, designed by James Ennis from Ireland, has been selected as the winner of the first Eur... more  A Year in Design: AIDA Launches the Official 2009 Yearbook AIDA launched "A Year in Design" - the official 2009 Australian International Design Awards Yearbook. With a foreword from the Prime Minist... more  Breathing Bathtub by Li Xi Wins the 3rd Edition of Jump the Gap by Roca Roca announced the winning project of the 3rd edition of the International Contest "Jump the Gap," chosen from 382 project presen... more  Getting Emotional About Packaging Design IKEA recently changed the font they use in all of their marketing and packaging to great uproar among their loyal customers, and certainly within the design com... more  Australian Innovation Bursts to the Front of the Pack The Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) announced the winners of three National Awards Competitions - the Australian Packaging Awards (for industr... more  Bruno Everling Wins Bombay Sapphire Global Design Prize German designer, Bruno Everling has been named the £5,000 winner of the eighth annual Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, one of the top ... more  Classics for Kids: The Special Edition of the Thonet Classics 214 and S 43 for Kids Great classics for little people: the Thonet company will be producing two icons of furniture design in a special edi... more | ||
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